Good to hear from you again Melissa. Even though some people seem to naturally have more confidence than others, we can’t just rely on being born with it. It is our job to work on developing it.

You are welcome welcome! Thank you for sharing with us in your comments!

Dunning Kruger Effect! Have never heard of it! Good to know 🙂

It’s interesting that you should mention this, Alan. I am familiar with this confident unawareness that you are describing. In fact, I myself had known a few people who fit this definition. Recently I came across the scientific name for this phenomenon – turns out, it’s called Dunning-Kruger Effect. People with this cognitive bias are incompetent at something but are unable to recognize their own incompetence. Moreover, they feel confident as if they are actually competent. I hope it all makes sense to you :).

In my experience this is not necessarily true all the time. Through the many years of my work experience in the corporate world, I had to witness some extremly confident candidates with very limited knowledge in their subject areas. Still find it difficult to understand the source of their confidence 🙂 but it was not their competency.

Hi Jason, your message here is so timely! Interesting you mention that having confidence doesn’t mean failure is impossible. Sometimes even I can’t help it and see my failures as setback more than anything else. Great reminder about learning both from success and failures for building our confidence.